Laurie Penny on advertising: First, the admen stole feminism – then they used it to flog cheap chocolate ... to find a way of selling cigarettes to women. The first feminist wave was still in full, ...

The Tumblr site features women holding handmade signs advertising their reasons ... three distinct stages in the past century. First-wave feminism (from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries ...

Most conservative women, if asked about the first wave of feminism, would voice general approval. It is seen as a rather pure approach to women’s issues, focused on protecting women and ...

The first wave of feminism refers to the campaign for the vote. It began in the United States in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention, where 300 gathered to debate Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s ...

ABC News spoke to feminists across the generations to define modern feminism. Feminism, the first wave of which began with the suffrage movement in the mid-1800s, looks vastly different today than ...

Betty Friedan, the writer, thinker and activist who almost single-handedly revived feminism with her 1963 book ... sex-neutral help-wanted ads, maternity leave, child-care centers for working ...

It has been so successful because it has been fairly quiet. First-wave feminism early in the 20th century made great public scandal, as the suffragettes were willing to go to jail. They believed ...